Well, I've always highly recomended the Website Optimizer to people looking to determine what the problem with their website is.  The only two things I didn't like about it, were the over exadurated download times, and no clues as to the health of the webserver in question.  So, I decided to write my own.  It may be a bit buggy at first, but bear with me.  It not only gives you the real time data on how long it took this server to grab the page, it also gives you information on how long your server took to generate the request, how long it took to resolve the domain name, how long it took to connect, and how fast the download actually went...   It also keeps track of the fastest pages and servers it connects to... Be sure to check it out (Performance Grader under Tools), or click here for the Performance Grader!

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